Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Having just received OPI Black Shatter on Saturday, I basically applied it on top of EVERYTHING all weekend.

Zoya Charla, OPI BS, Essie MAY: I showed you this mani without matte topcoat a couple days ago. At the end of the day, I slapped on a coat of MAY to see how it would look.

Zoya Jo, OPI BS: I just showed you Jo by itself, and here it is with OPI BS.

Zoya Jo, OPI BS, Revlon Galaxy: I got pretty antsy this weekend, so I put Revlon Galaxy on top of that previous mani and ended up with this monstrosity. It looks better in pictures than in real life, I think. Then again, I am not actually a big fan of these Revlon glitter topcoats.

Zoya Valerie, CND Jade Sparkle, OPI BS: I really like this effect, up close. I bet ChG White Cap would work in the same way as CND Jade Sparkle, here.

DC Concrete Jungle, CND Sapphire Sparkle, OPI BS: Finally, I tried to use Concrete Jungle as my work-appropriate mani for the rest of the week, but I could not sit still. It pulls too blue on me, so I decided it should go in the swap pile. Not before layering on a CND effect and OPI BS, though!

Ok, hopefully I got all my BS out of my system (ehehe). For work, I'm wearing Essie Limited Addiction. I'm not going to put BS on it... yet. I just applied a refresher topcoat so I won't play with it anymore today!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Work is a rollercoaster. For two months I had to busy myself because there was no billable work to be found; two weeks ago, we got a rush project requiring lots of OT! Ahhh... work -.-

Couple weekends ago, DBF obliged me a trip to the Sallys-BigLots-DollarTree strip mall on the weekend. I didn't find anything at Sallys or DT, but Big Lots had 2-packs of Revlons for $2.00. I actually went to see if I could pick up some Revlon Perplex for swaps, but they didn't have any.

I picked up a duo containing Sublime Strawberry (one of the scented polishes) and Slipper (one of the glitter topcoats from the summer).

Revlon Sublime Strawberry - I'm actually surprised how much I like this! The scent doesn't really bother me, but I know others are sensitive to these scented Revlons.

Revlon Slipper (Layered over Essie Ballet Slippers) - not the most ideal polish to layer over, but it just happened to be what I was wearing when I bought it :) I picked up Galaxy when these first came out, and to be honest, I'm not sure if I like these :S